"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 6/26/08, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Avery Pennarun wrote: >>> >>> 1) What's a sensible way to tell git to *not* opendir() specific >>> directories to look for unexpected files in "git status"? (I don't >>> think I know enough to implement this myself.) >> >> Would checking the mtime on the directory itself help? > > I'm guessing it would help somewhat (although not as much as not > checking anything at all). However, we'd still have to check the > mtime *against* something, and I don't think the index stores > information about directories themselves. By the way, from time to time there on this mailing list is idea to add entries for directories in the index. This could help situation like yours, tracking emty directories, faster operations when some trees are unchanged, subtree <-> subproject changes. But it always comes back to: 1.) no proposed implementation, 2.) "git tracks contents"... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
